Heading to the beach Tues for some black sand sifting

[mike(swWash)]

Tides, days off, and weather have finally aligned so I get to give the new beach box I built a workout. I hope to be able to at least double the take that my cube would get since it's twice the mat size. Now I have to stockpile 2 truck loads before setup

Will report when I get back and the Super cons are cleaned up.

 

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[Prospector70]

Sweet! Post some pics for us land locked shovel masters

 

[kevin1]

I am soooooooo jealous!

 

[Doug Watson]

The weather sure is nice here (at least on the north beaches). Let us know how your day went.

 

[mike(swWash)]

Hit the beach at 10am and found the winter storms had washed out most of my favorite deposit areas but found enough to feed the sluice mostly black sand for 5 straight hrs. I forgot how small the gold is and what a HUGE PITA it is to clean up. I did a few spoonfulls and it looks like about half of my previous takes from the same area on other trips. Once I'm done running it on the miller table in a couple days, I'll put up a picture of the total.

However the weather was great and I managed my 1st sun burn of the year. Definitely no better way to spend a day at the beach.

 

[425jesse]

Nice Job Mike!! Most of that recoverable beach gold is -100 to -200, right?

 

[mike(swWash)]

Yeah really small to invisible to the eye size....

 

[goldenmojo]

Now do you call that fly poop or gnat sh*t? Just messin with ya. It looks like you have a good system cause your squeezin the gold from the earth. Waiting to see the final cleanup pics.

 

[Sluicer]

Nice sure is pretty looking "dust" I'm exited just got my permit in the mail today now I just need to devise a recirc system to test out on the heavy black sands found on the beaches here